Today’s essential questions:What is working on my infographic? What could be improved?

Today we will break into two small groups and critique our infographics so far. As the group is giving you feedback on your infographic, you should be writing their feedback in a new blog post. You should then reference this blog post when you resume working on your infographic, as it will serve as a list of suggestions/changes to make to your infographic.

Here is a sample infographic I made to show the potential changes that could be made through a peer critique:

Peer Critique Questions

Evaluate the infographic on the following categories.
State what is working and what could be improved:

Visual Hierarchy

Alignment

Proximity/Grouping

Typography

Color Scheme

Graphics

Today we will:

conduct a model critqiue at the Smart Board as a class

break into two groups, and critique each group member’s current infographic

publish a new blog post with the feedback received during today’s critique

continue working on our infographics, incorporating the feedback from today’s critique

add a PDF and PNG of our progress to the blog post with the critique feedback

Look at the infographics below. Each infographic has a few dominant colors of equal saturation or brightness, as well as some neutrals. What purpose do the neutrals serve? What might the dominant colors for your infographic be? Why is it important to conscientiously limit your color palette?

Today’s essential question:How can I coordinate my text with my graphics to create a cohesive style throughout my infographic?

We are really limited with the typefaces that are installed on these computers. For best results, I’d recommend searching dafont.com for a few interesting typefaces to use for your headings, previewing the wording, and using the snipping tool to take a screen shot of each heading written in that typeface. Then place the screen shot in Illustrator and trace over the text with the pen tool.

Notice what a difference custom lettering has made in the examples below. How does the style of the text coordinate with the style of the graphics?

Image Credit: Tina

Image Credit: Carla

Incomplete Project Proposals

The following people never submitted complete project proposals: Aiden, Narionna, Andrew, Brandon.

A complete project proposal should include the following:

a few sentences describing your concept

any text you plan to use in your infographic (including body text or text that will be bulleted below the headings)

the photograph of your layout (many people only included this and are missing the first two components)

Today we will:

Continue working on our infographic projects

Create a new blog post with our progress. Include:

a PDF of your project

a PNG of your project

a few sentences explaining what has been easy and what is still challenging